1. I`m an old stick-in-the-mud who still believe in honesty.
我是个仍然相信做人应该诚实的老古板。
2. It was a subject of regret and absurd as well on the face of it and no small blame to our vaunted society that the man in the street, when the system really needed toning up, for the matter of a couple of paltry pounds was debarred from seeing more of the world they lived in instead of being always and ever cooped up since my old stick-in-the-mud took me for a wife.
109正当普通市民确实需要加强体质的时候，由于舍不得区区两三英镑，就不去看看自己所生活在其中的大千世界。这位老古板自从娶了老婆，就一直关在家里。真是令人遗憾，一望可知是很荒唐的事，这在相当程度上要归罪于我们这个自负的社会，不管怎么说，真是岂有此理。
3. As a result, research into genetically modified wine is going on in the Old World, too—even in such stick-in-the-mud places as France and Italy.
因此，欧洲对于基因重组的技术也在不断研发中，即使是在意大利和法国这样困难重重的地方。
4. Old stick-in-the-mud; old diehard; old fogey
我一家老小都靠我一人养活了。